John Bennion
JOHN BENNION writes short fiction and novels about the western Utah desert and the people who inhabit that forbidding country. Publications include Breeding Leah and Other Stories (Signature Books, 1991) and Falling toward Heaven, forthcoming this year from the same press. He is currently working on Avenging Saint, a nineteenth-century murder mystery, and Second Wind, a young adult novel. An associate professor at Brigham Young University, Bennion teaches creative writing, the British novel, Mormon literature, and Wilderness Writing, a course in which students hike and backpack and write personal narratives based on their experiences. He lives in Springville with his wife, Karla, and their three youngest children.
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Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 4
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Articles/Essays – Volume 55, No. 3
Renegotiating Scylla and Charybdis: Reading and the Distance between New York and Utah
Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 3
Observing the New West: Letting Loose the Hounds by Brady Udall
Articles/Essays – Volume 31, No. 4
Mapping Manifest Destiny: Lucile Cannon Bennion (1891–1966)
Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 1